A successful democracy requires a balance of labor and
capital.Workers have more power when
labor is in short supply.When there is
a surplus of labor (overpopulation), workers lose power.The next several decades will probably
continue to have a large surplus of cheap labor.In this environment, powerful individuals,
and families, tend to form ruling oligarchies in which the few rule the many
since the alternative is often a very poor welfare state.

The wealthy democracies will probably survive, but most poor
countries will become even more oligarcic.The wealthy democracies will need to use their foreign aid, including
food, to encourage reduction of birth rates in poor oligarchies since there are
likely to be even fewer poor democracies.Reducing birth rates as quickly as possible will help reduce the
oversupply of labor.Aiding the better
oligarchies would also increase the probability that they might become less
repressive and more democratic.

I suggest giving most foreign aid, including food, as grants
(not loans) to those poor countries which are reducing their birth rates at
about (0.5) births/1000 population/year (China
achieved a reduction rate of (0.6)/1000/yr (Population.htm).).Likewise, it seems advisable to grant immigration mainly to countries
which meet this reduction in birth rate as an incentive and safety valve.For example, if a country has a current birth
rate of 40/1000, one might hope to see the annual sequence of 40, 39.5, 39,
38.5, etc. reaching 5 births/1000 in (40-5)/0.5 = 70 years.Such countries are doing the best they can to
first reach zero population growth (2 children/woman) and then actually
decrease their population (approaching 1 child/woman).The population will continue to grow until births
equal deaths and then begin a slow decline as the birth rate drops below the
death rate.After the desired GDP/capita
is reached, the birth rate can return to 2 children/woman. This process would take
from a few years to several hundred years to reach $20,000/person/year given
current GDP’s and energy consumption (Modelout.htm).We should get started!